As I recall, we tried to land him at Va. Tech back in the late 80's. I remember that he made a big impression, even at the very beginning of his career. I was terribly disappointed that he went to The Other School instead.
He accomplished more in each year of his life than most of us will accomplish in a lifetime, and with The Last Lecture, he truly surpassed himself. Thanks, Randy, and Godspeed.
There are also Schmitz's "Telzey Amberdon" books, as well as his classic "The Witches of Karres."
I can't second these highly enough, and the entire James H. Schmitz canon has just been re-released -- all the Telzey and Trigger stories, all the rest of the Federation of the Hub material, The Witches of Karres, and a bunch of otherwise uncollected material.
The Schmitz stories are incredibly positive (although he does have some pretty dark stand-alone short material), the storytelling is outstanding, the characters are reasonably interesting, and he has very strong female characters -- important for impressionable young female readers, but perhaps even more so for impressionable young male readers! And they're almost entirely free of graphic violence, sexual content, and anything else uncomfortable to recommend to children.
I also felt like Clarke and Asimov stood me in good stead as a child. I missed a lot in works like Childhood's End, but greatly enjoyed and profited from the shorter works.
Only in very specialized applications where you have extremely weak, but continuous sources of power, could you realize any benefit to a picowatt vs a nanowatt of consumption. For batteries or supercaps, the power source will self-discharge at a much higher rate anyway. But suppose your battery or supercap can be topped off periodically by a 1mm^2 solar cell. Facing the sun directly, it would intercept something like a millijoule per second, and could realistically capture tens of microjoules per second. A processor drawing an average 100 nW could accumulate a day's worth of power from five or ten minutes of sunlight. A processor drawing an average 100 pW could do it with less than one second's exposure -- or with a few minutes' exposure to diffuse room lighting, or maybe an hour's exposure to the light that diffuses through the outer few millimeters of your skin.
And on top of that, Richard Anderson just happened to be his father. Which is little-known, mainly because it's false.
http://www.rdanderson.com/bio/bio.htm
Nitrogen doesn't contribute to explosive power. Many explosives are nitrates, but it's the Oxygen in the compound that makes them explosive, not the Nitrogen.
Remember the FingerWorks TouchStream and iGesture, which also allowed both typing and mouse/scroll/zoom/etc. on a single surface, only without sucking?
Maybe I'm missing the usefulness of some of those but it doesn't seem like a big deal.
I'm generous enough to hope that you never develop a medical condition requiring an MRI scan, because such medical conditions often are a big deal.
Note also that high-energy physics, including fusion research, relies very heavily on cryogenic cooling. Wouldn't it suck if the fusion economy couldn't get started because of a shortage of its own waste product?
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As I recall, we tried to land him at Va. Tech back in the late 80's. I remember that he made a big impression, even at the very beginning of his career. I was terribly disappointed that he went to The Other School instead.
He accomplished more in each year of his life than most of us will accomplish in a lifetime, and with The Last Lecture, he truly surpassed himself. Thanks, Randy, and Godspeed.
You can not conserve yourself into prosperity.
But you can easily waste yourself into oblivion. Since this will also drag down my children, please cut it out.
...music publishers?
There are also Schmitz's "Telzey Amberdon" books, as well as his classic "The Witches of Karres."
I can't second these highly enough, and the entire James H. Schmitz canon has just been re-released -- all the Telzey and Trigger stories, all the rest of the Federation of the Hub material, The Witches of Karres, and a bunch of otherwise uncollected material.
The Schmitz stories are incredibly positive (although he does have some pretty dark stand-alone short material), the storytelling is outstanding, the characters are reasonably interesting, and he has very strong female characters -- important for impressionable young female readers, but perhaps even more so for impressionable young male readers! And they're almost entirely free of graphic violence, sexual content, and anything else uncomfortable to recommend to children.
I also felt like Clarke and Asimov stood me in good stead as a child. I missed a lot in works like Childhood's End, but greatly enjoyed and profited from the shorter works.
DON'T RETCON ME, BRO!
Remember the FingerWorks TouchStream and iGesture, which also allowed both typing and mouse/scroll/zoom/etc. on a single surface, only without sucking?
Maybe I'm missing the usefulness of some of those but it doesn't seem like a big deal.
I'm generous enough to hope that you never develop a medical condition requiring an MRI scan, because such medical conditions often are a big deal.
Note also that high-energy physics, including fusion research, relies very heavily on cryogenic cooling. Wouldn't it suck if the fusion economy couldn't get started because of a shortage of its own waste product?